Making Sense of History

Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51040-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Turkish, Ottoman, Band 74, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

In Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na'ima, Gül Sen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Sen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle—not just what the text says but why Na'ima wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Na'ima’s chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author’s use of key concepts such as history and time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Sen, Gül

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Über Autor(innen)

Gül Sen, (Ph.D. 2012, Habil. 2021, University of Bonn), is Interim Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (Turkish, Persian), University of Heidelberg. She has published books and articles on Ottoman history and historiography.